Top Airline Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Sylvester Stallone

John Lithgow

Michael Rooker

Janine Turner

Cliffhanger (1993)

6.5 2.7K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: France, Italy

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who are looking for boxes full of money.

Plot: airplane, mountain, rocky mountains, hijacking, suitcase, climbing, heist, money, ...

Pan Am (2011) TV Show

6.5 139 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 14

Audience: TV-PG

Story: In this modern world, air travel represents the height of luxury and Pan Am is the biggest name in the business. The planes are glamorous, the pilots are rock stars and the stewardesses are the most desirable women in the world. They're trained to handle everything from in-air emergencies to unwanted advances—all without rumpling their pristine uniforms or mussing their hair.

Style: nostalgic, romantic

Plot: parent child relationship, pilot, airplane, period drama, historical, airline, flight attendant, historical drama, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Timothy Dalton

Maryam D'Abo

Joe Don Baker

Art Malik

The Living Daylights (1987)

6.5 2.0K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: PG

Story: After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.

Plot: prison, london, england, assassination, airplane, escape, arms smuggling, secret mission, ...

Place: england, afghanistan

Cast

Harrison Ford

Gary Oldman

Glenn Close

Wendy Crewson

Air Force One (1997)

6.5 3.4K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.

Plot: vietnam veteran, journalist, usa president, washington dc, usa, airplane, ultimatum, kazakhstan, ...

Cast

Archie Panjabi

Mark Rendall

Kristen Holden-Ried

Patrick Sabongui

Departure (2019) TV Show

6.5 117 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Canada, United Kingdom

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-14

Story: Follow the mystery of Flight 716 - a passenger plane that vanishes over the Atlantic Ocean. Following the mysterious crash, recently widowed, brilliant aviation investigator Kendra Malley is called in to investigate by her former boss and mentor Howard Lawson.

Plot: airplane, conspiracy, airplane accident, blunt

Cast

Rani Mukerji

Saif Ali Khan

Kirron Kher

Rati Agnihotri

Hum Tum (2004)

6.4 129 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family

Country: India

Duration: 142 min.

Audience: PG

Story: The encounters of two people who run into each other on several occasions under circumstances ranging from friendly to hostile to loving. Along many years and countless run-ins, the two despise each other, befriend each other, and fall in love with each other—in no particular order.

Plot: airplane, paris, france, loss of loved one, delhi, india, comic-strip artist

Cast

Timothy Dalton

Carey Lowell

Robert Davi

Talisa Soto

Licence to Kill (1989)

6.4 2.2K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: Mexico, United Kingdom

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered. Bond goes rogue and seeks vengeance on those responsible, as he infiltrates Sanchez's organization from the inside.

Plot: corruption, airplane, liberation of prisoners, drug trafficking, secret identity, floatplane, transport of prisoners, tank car, ...

Place: florida

Cast

Kevin Hart

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Sam Worthington

Vincent D'Onofrio

Lift (2024)

6.4 1.5K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: An international heist crew, led by Cyrus Whitaker, race to lift $500 million in gold from a passenger plane at 40,000 feet.

Plot: gold, airplane, gang of thieves, heist, airplane hijacking, caper comedy, terrorist group, cyber terrorism, ...

Cast

Jennifer Lopez

Brett Goldstein

Betty Gilpin

Edward James Olmos

Office Romance (2026)

6.4 301 votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: Jackie, President and CEO of Air Cruz, runs a tight ship in her business, including a rigid anti-fraternization policy for all her employees. When a new sexy lawyer begins working for her, that policy becomes very tested.

Style: shocking

Plot: romcom, lawyer, ceo, airline, office romance, love story

Flightplan (2005)

6.4 3.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter.

Plot: berlin, germany, airplane, loss of loved one, baby-snatching, flight, missing child, flight attendant, ...

Cast

Moon Nam-sook

Chang Eun-sook

Hong So-young

Jeon Tae-yeol

Super Wings (2014) TV Show

6.4 19 votes

Genre: Animation, Family

Country: China, South Korea

Seasons: 20

Episodes: 584

Audience: TV-Y

Story: An action-packed preschool series about an adorable jet plane named Jett who travels the world delivering packages to children. On every delivery, Jett encounters a new problem that the he and his friends the Super Wings must work together to solve!

Plot: airport, education, airplane, cartoon, mecha, robot, educational, pre-school, ...

Cast

Rachel McAdams

Cillian Murphy

Brian Cox

Jayma Mays

Red Eye (2005)

6.4 2.6K votes

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 85 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: An overnight flight to Miami quickly becomes a battle for survival when Lisa realizes her seatmate plans to use her as part of a chilling assassination plot against the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. If she refuses to cooperate, her own father will be killed. As the miles tick by, she's in a race against time to find a way to warn the potential victims before it's too late.

Style: suspenseful, intense

Plot: hotel, airplane, airport, miami, florida, hitman, threat of death, flight, ...

Cast

Sylvester Stallone

Jason Statham

Jet Li

Dolph Lundgren

The Expendables 2 (2012)

6.4 7.2K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Bulgaria

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat.

Plot: airplane, loss of loved one, mercenary, sequel, airplane crash, beard, airport lounge, asian woman

Cast

Tom Brittney

Holly White

Betsy Blue-English

Dane Whyte O'Hara

Black Box (2026)

6.3 21 votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 85 min.

Audience: R

Story: A routine domestic flight turns into the flight from hell through a series of inexplicable phenomena and raw terror. Surreal encounters blur the boundaries between reality and nightmare. Passengers fight against all the odds in an attempt to survive while combating bizarre technological malfunctions, accelerating supernatural events and alien influences.

Plot: airplane, supernatural, airplane trip

Cast

Steve Carell

Anne Hathaway

Dwayne Johnson

Alan Arkin

Get Smart (2008)

6.2 3.9K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When members of the nefarious crime syndicate KAOS attack the U.S. spy agency Control and the identities of secret agents are compromised, the Chief has to promote hapless but eager analyst Maxwell Smart to field agent. He is partnered with veteran and capable Agent 99, the only spy whose cover remains intact. Can they work together to thwart the evil world-domination plans of KAOS and its crafty operative?

Plot: dancing, mission, usa president, washington dc, usa, airplane, undercover agent, spy, ...

Cast

Hrithik Roshan

Deepika Padukone

Anil Kapoor

Karan Singh Grover

Fighter (2024)

6.2 161 votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 166 min.

Audience: NR

Story: As India faces a militant attack in Kashmir, the country’s best combat aviators join forces under a reckless yet brilliant squadron leader to form 'Air Dragons', faces mortal dangers and their inner demons.

Plot: helicopter, airplane, fighter pilot, helicopter pilot, kashmir conflict, behind enemy lines, jet fighter pilot, military, ...

Cast

Vin Diesel

Donnie Yen

Ruby Rose

Deepika Padukone

xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)

6.1 9.3K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime

Country: Canada, China

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Xander Cage is left for dead after an incident, though he secretly returns to action for a new, tough assignment with his handler Augustus Gibbons.

Style: intense

Plot: airplane, tattoo, spy, extreme sports, parachute, secret agent, swimming pool, sequel, ...

Cast

Drew Barrymore

Justin Long

Charlie Day

Jason Sudeikis

Going the Distance (2010)

6.1 785 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: Erin and Garrett are very much in love. When Erin moves to San Francisco to finish her journalism degree and Garrett stays behind in New York to work in the music industry, they gamely keep the romance alive with webcams and frequent-flyer miles. But just when it seems the lovers will soon be reunited, they each score a big break that could separate them for good.

Plot: new york city, newspaper, airplane, waitress, san francisco, california, writer, masturbation, ...

Cast

Jerry Seinfeld

Renu00e9e Zellweger

Matthew Broderick

Patrick Warburton

Bee Movie (2007)

6.0 5.3K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Barry B. Benson, a recent college graduate who wants more out of his life than making honey, decides to sue the human race after learning about the exploitation of bees at the hands of mankind. What will happen next?

Plot: factory worker, airplane, court, tennis, florist, flower shop, college, pilot, ...

Cast

Chuck Norris

Lee Marvin

Martin Balsam

Joey Bishop

The Delta Force (1986)

6.0 524 votes

Genre: Action, Thriller, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: R

Story: A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.

Plot: rescue, martial arts, airplane, war veteran, fight, patriotism, hijacking, rescue mission, ...

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